Swiss overseas coverage, 1945-2002 provides for the 1st time a finished selection of 8 essays addressing the post-war international coverage of Switzerland. The essays care for a various diversity of concerns: normal overseas coverage and neutrality; protection and safeguard coverage; relatives with the United international locations; the Swiss coverage of excellent workplaces; family with the foreign Committee of the pink pass; Swiss human rights coverage; fingers regulate and non-proliferation and international financial coverage.

At the back of the old bills of the nice males of the NAACP lies the virtually forgotten tale of the ladies who not just participated within the association yet really helped it thrive within the early twentiethcentury South. In Invisible Activists, Lee Sartain examines attitudes towards gender, category, and citizenship of African American activists in Louisiana and women's roles within the crusade for civil rights within the kingdom.

This can be a historical past of Europe not like the other: a theory-informed historical past of its language use. The 'rise' and 'fall' of languages are acknowledged, in addition to an research of why classes of linguistic range are through hegemony. How did the sociolinguistic earlier range from the sociolinguistic current?

Ideology became recognized as a key factor in the rise of complex society. Coe (1981) in particular was explicit in his criticism of the then-dominant materialist school; he defended causal consideration of factors traditionally condemned to the status of epiphenomena, such as religion. Hodder’s (1982) edited volume, Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, also marked a coming of age of postprocessual archaeology. A 1987 School of American Research seminar speciﬁcally examined the role of ideology in various precolumbian civilizations (Demarest and Conrad 1992; see also Conrad and Demarest 1984).

These architects are writing about contemporary Western society, yet their studies are relevant to the precolumbian past. In this book I am tremendously concerned with palimpsests — with the physical, social, political, and ideological challenges presented by the reception among those living in a later time of an obtrusive and potentially meaning-encumbered landscape that has persistent features from an earlier time. What are the necessary physical and ideological alterations made by the later people who intend to live and build on that landscape in order to appropriate, habilitate, transform, or destroy existing landscapes?